The Languages of Fornoire

Name	The Fornirian Language Fornoireur Kilou (Fornirian)
Region	Fornoire and the Union (or Kumari)
Speakers Language Family Writing Systems	110 million (Fornoire alone), with L2 Speakers 180 million (Fornoire alone) Azurian   Forniriac   West Forniriac     Old Fornirian     Fornirian Fornirian, Fornirian Kana (small minority, historically used in protest against the monarchy)
Official Language in	Fornoire The Union (or Kumari)
Regulated by	The Royal Academy of Language (Riyalur Akademiaka Kilou) (Fornoire)

The Fornirian Language (Fornirian: Fornoireur Kilou) is the most spoken Azurian language in the world, with 110 million native speakers and 180 million overall in Fornoire alone.

Once one of the dozens of Azurian languages, Fornirian became official in the 800s, after the Kingdom of Fornoire was founded. Many other groups were suppressed or outright exterminated in the national push to make Fornirian the official language. Only few of the mostly Azurian languages survived, either because the population accepted the language and/or abandoned their local Azurian language, or because the royal authorities massacred and/or oppressed all those who refused to learn it. Only the Solunanist and Hokutan languages survived untouched, mainly due because the regions their speakers inhabited were essential for stability, and because the groups were pro-Fornirian regions. All other languages are severely or even critically endangered, the most severe case having only 20 speakers.

Because of all the blood shed in those medieval days, when the Fornirian mainland expanded into the nearby archipelago, Fornoire decided to not push the language in the conquered areas, fearing unrest. They did, however, make Fornoire the official language of government nevertheless, and introduced Fornirian into the curriculum. The teaching was done in the native language of the area, in order to quell any unrest, but you had to learn Fornirian fluently to graduate from high school. Fornirian is still in the national curriculum, but it is not needed to have passed Fornirian to graduate anymore in non-Fornirian regions.

The Fornirian language is mostly a syllabaric language, having few words in which two consonants are constant (example: Tiskanega, a word for freshwater fish, has a pair of unseparated consonants. Few Fornirian words have unseparated consonants). For this, anti-monarchist regions have historically used a modified system of Kana in the past, called the Fornirian Kana or Fana in Fornirian, as the Fornirian script was developed by the elite. At its height in Fornoire's Industrial Revolution, it had over ~100,000-300,000 adherents, mostly used by disgruntled left-wing workers and republicans in protest. Today it has less than 5,000, mostly centred on the industrial south. 

Despite it being mostly a syllabary, and despite using Kana in protest, Fornirian has little to no connection to Seikyo (or Japanese), with the only loanword popularly used being Sakura, a word for cherry tree in both Fornirian and Seikyo.